Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Published 2004 · 95,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Biography, History, Nonfiction
How hard is Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World to read?
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World scores 19 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- Mongol and Central Asian terms explained clearly.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Historical argument grounded in specific events.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Dense with historical detail across a vast empire.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Chronological with thematic sections.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Genghis Khan as symbol of misunderstood innovation.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Reversal of Western assumptions about 'barbarians.'
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Clear argument stated and supported.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- Three-part structure: rise, empire, legacy.
How Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is regarded
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World holds a literary regard score of 42 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.